CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium
Call For Presentations
Date: The 2026 CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster session is scheduled for Thursday, April 16, 2026. Below are the results from last years event.
Deadline: April 7, 2026, 5:00 PM (April 1 is the first day of submission)
Location: PSU Ballroom
Poster Presentation Guidelines
Poster Presentation Judging Criteria Form
About the event
All current CNAS undergraduate students and December 2025 graduates are invited to submit a poster for the CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Presentations are refereed, and awards are given for first place ($100) and second place ($50) for each CNAS department and the cooperative engineering program.
Contact your advisor for abstract submission instructions information or see the Poster Presentation Guidelines link above
Please submit your abstract to Gale Lininger, galelininger@missouristate.edu
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Archive of results
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2018
2025 Winners
Biology: Ecology, Wildlife and Conservation
1st Place: Jaslyn Johnson and Anna Faust
EXPOSURE TO VARYING TEMPERATURES INFLUENCES AZOLLA GROWTH
Faculty Advisor: Dr. La Toya Kissoon-Charles
2nd Place: Jaycie Balkenbush and Jordan Porsch
HEALTH AND BIODIVERSITY IN A JAMAICAN REEF INCLUDING STATUS OF INVASIVE LIONFISH
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Alexander Wait
Biology: Cellular, Microbiology and Genetics
1st Place: Daniel Kim, Abhishhu Chand, Emma Braun, Nhi Le, Kyoungtae Kim
AMMONIUM AND PHOSPHONIUM CHITOSAN POLYELECTROLYTES FOR GENE DELIVERY
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Reza Sedaghat-Herati
2nd Place: Emma Goodwyn and Nicole Nalley
COMPARISON OF GENE EXPRESSION IN RAT TRIGEMINAL GANGLION AND PRIMARY CULTURES OF TRIGEMINAL
GANGLION USING QPCR
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Paul Durham
Chemistry and Biochemistry
1st Place: Abby Teitelbaum, Rahab Kanogo, Eniola Arogunyo, Mitchell Kim, Alexis Holyfield, Trishna
Timalsena, Fei Wang, Santimukul Santra and Tuhina Banerjee
REDOX-ACTIVE NANOSTRUCTURES WITH ULTRAHIGH CATALYTIC ACTIVITY FOR COLORIMETRIC APPLICATIONS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tuhina Benerjee
1st Place: James Speake
DOXORUBICIN PRODRUG ENCAPSULATED ACTIVATABLE MR NANOPROBE FOR THE THERANOSTIC TREATMENT
OF CANCER
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Santimukul Santra
2nd Place: Tim Howard
REPRESENTATIONAL DETERMINISM IN NUCLEOPHILIC ALIPHATIC SUBSTITUTION AND ELIMINATION
REACTIONS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Gautam Bhattacharyya
Computer Science
1st Place: Christopher Housholder, Zelun He, and Vivian Ning
ARCHITECTURAL REDUNDANCIES IN THE DOZERFORMER ATTENTION MODEL ON TIME-SERIES PREDICTIONS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Yifan Zhang
2nd Place: Keegan Spell, Santimukul Santra, and Tuhina Banerjee
IMAGE PROCESSING PIPELINE FOR QUANTIFICATION OF TEST LINE INTENSITY IN LATERAL FLOW
ASSAY STRIP IMAGES
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mukulika Ghosh
Cooperative Engineering
1st Place: Benjamin Cuebas and Justin Fausto
DiSeCT (DISCRETE SEMICONDUCTOR CURVE TRACER)
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Rohit Dua
2nd Place: Preston Carroll, Nathan Swan, Ben Alexander
SILICON SIGNALS (SiGNAL): A MODULAR SYNTHESIZER FOR INTUITIVE SOUND DESIGN
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Rohit Dua
School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability: Geology
1st Place: Grace Chalfant
REPLICATING THE USDA/PRISM METHOD OF MAPPING PLANT HARDINESS ZONES IN ALASKA
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Toby Dogwiler
2nd Place: Noah Short
A CONTINUED RESEARCH ON EXAMINING PUMICES AND LAVA FLOWS FROM SOCOMPA VOLCANO
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Gary Michelfelder
School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability: Geography, Geospatial and Planning
1st Place: Kayla May, Dr. Bob Pavlowsky, Marc Owen, Josh Hess, and Brianne Edwards
IN-CHANNEL SEDIMENT DEPOSITION PATTERS ALONG 424 KM OF THE GASCONADE RIVER IN MISSOURI
Faculty Advisor: Marc Owen
Mathematics
1st Place: Christopher Housholder and Layna Mangiapanello
VC-DIMENSIONS OF SUBSETS OF THE HAMMING GRAPH
Faculty advisor: Dr. Steven Senger
2nd Place: Christopher Housholder
CONVERGENCE OF CLASSICAL AND NONLOCAL ATMOSPHERIC AND SEA HARZARDS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Animesh Biswas
Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science
1st Place: Simarpreet K. Girn
THE MYSTERIOUS FATE OF EXOMOONS AROUND WARM-JUPITERS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sarah Morrison
2nd Place: Lana Janson, Wade Van Riessen, Markos A. Georgy
CHITOSAN NANOPARTICLES INCORPORATED WITH VARIOUS SURFACTANTS FOR OPTIMAL CANCER DRUG
DELIVERY
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Robert A. Mayanovic